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The phrasal verb naff off, a euphemistic substitute for fuck off, first appeared in print in Keith Waterhouse's novel Billy Liar (1959), and Waterhouse himself insists that it was originally conscript service slang as an acronym of 'nasty, awful, fuck it'. The adjective naff, which has a range of meanings roughly corresponding to 'lacking taste or style, inept', is unrelated to the verb.

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Brit. slang  worthless, useless; tacky, tasteless, unfashionable; hence, naffly : in a naff manner

1. naff
   verb intr. and trans., Brit
   
   Used as a euphemistic substitution for fuck verb, esp. in phr. to naff off, to go away (usu. in imperative). (1959 —) .
   Custom Car Go and get yourself naffed, you chauvinistic, capitalistic leper (1977);
   Sunday Times Princess Anne...lost her temper with persistent photographers and told them to 'naff off' (1982). Hence naffing adjective Used as an intensive to express annoyance, etc. (1959 —) .
   Clement & La Frenais Stealing your tin of naffing pineapple chunks? Not even my favourite fruit (1976).
   
   [Origin uncertain; perh. from eff verb, with the addition of the final -n of a preceding word (as in the noun phr. an eff); cf. also obs. backslang naf = fan female genitals (see fanny¹ noun 1).]
2. naff
   adjective
   
   1: Unfashionable; vulgar; socially awkward. (1966 —) .
   Sunday Telegraph It is naff to call your house The Gables, Mon Repos, or Dunroamin' (1983).
   Times Gaultier had turned everything that fashion most despises, what English youth calls 'naff', into high style (1985).
   
   2: Worthless, rubbishy, faulty. (1969 —) .
   Record Mirror A really naff song that wouldn't get anywhere without Ringo's name on it (1977).
   
   [Origin unknown; cf. northern Eng. dialect naffhead, naffin, naffy idiot; niffy-naffy stupid; Scottish nyaff unpleasant person.]

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See words rhyming with "naff."

Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. intr. - skrubbe af, skride

idioms:

• naff off    skrub af!

2.
adj. - antikveret, umoderne

Nederlands (Dutch)
niets (waard)

Français (French)
1.
v. intr. - s'en aller

idioms:

• naff off    foutre le camp, s'en aller

2.
adj. - (GB) tarte (fam), ringard

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - (Slang) abhauen

idioms:

• naff off    (ugs) abhauen, verschwinden

2.
adj. - (Slang) ätzend

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (καθομ.) φεύγω, ξεκουμπίζομαι
adj. - παλιομοδίτικος

idioms:

• naff off    ξεκουμπίσου!

Italiano (Italian)
rompere le scatole, insulso

Português (Portuguese)
v. - vadiar
adj. - fora de moda, antiquado

Русский (Russian)
вались отсюда, отсталый

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. intr. - mandar a alguien a paseo, irse

idioms:

• naff off    irse, desaparecer

2.
adj. - de mal gusto, chungo

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - försvinna
adj. - löjlig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 没风格的

idioms:

• naff off    离开

2. 滚

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. intr. - 滾

2.
adj. - 沒風格的

idioms:

• naff off    離開

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. intr. - 가다, 사라지다

idioms:

• naff off    꺼져!

2.
adj. - (사물,생각,행동 등이) 바보 같은, 무가치한

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 去る
adj. - くだらない, 非常識な, おいしくない, 流行後れの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يصبح قديما او ليس على الموضه, يصبح غير مناسب (صفه) غير مناسب, لا يساوي شيئا, قديم ( ليس على الموضه)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮תתחפף! (עגה), תעוף לי מהעיניים!‬
adj. - ‮לא אופנתי, חסר-טעם, חסר-ערך‬

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